CVE-2012-3371
LOW · CVSS 3.5EPSS 1.9%EU EUVD
The Nova scheduler in OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom (2012.2) and Essex (2012.1), when DifferentHostFilter or SameHostFilter is enabled, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (excessive database lookup calls and server hang) via a request with many repeated IDs in the os:scheduler_hints section.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 3.5 (v2.0)
- Severity
- LOW
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-20
- EPSS score
- 1.9% (79th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2012-0023)
- Published
- July 17, 2012
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2012-0023 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- openstack / compute
- openstack / essex
- openstack / folsom
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/07/11/13
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54388
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1501-1
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1017795(Exploit)
- https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/034762e8060dcf0a11cb039b9d426b0d0bb1801d(Exploit, Patch)
- https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg14452.html
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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